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Ch02 HW
Ch02 HW
Ch02 HW
1
Free fall analysed with multiflash photographs
This worksheet uses data to calculate the acceleration due to gravity, g.
1
Image number
Scale reading / cm
12
21
32
45
61
80
100
124
149
10
178
Table 1
Figure 1
From the data in Table 1, draw a distancetime table for the free fall, setting distance s = 0 and
time t = 0 at image 1.
[2]
Use your distancetime table to plot a distancetime graph for the falling ball.
By drawing tangents to the curve at the points corresponding to images 3 and 8, find the speed
of the falling golf ball at those two times.
[4]
Use your answer to 1c to calculate the acceleration due to gravity, and account for any
difference between your value and the expected 9.8 m s2.
[4]
[3]
Figure 2 shows a multiflash picture of a ball thrown upwards at an angle. The ball was thrown in
the direction shown by the arrow in front of a board marked with a grid of lines separated by 5 cm.
As in question 1, the images of the ball were recorded twenty times each second.
Figure 2
Explain how Figure 2 shows that the horizontal component of velocity ux is constant.
[1]
[2]
Apply the equations of motion to information from Figure 2 to find the vertical component uy
of the initial velocity of the ball (position 1). You can assume that g = 9.8 m s2.
[4]